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Originally Posted by Gotthard Heinrici  Does anyone know which, if any of the Wehrmacht Generals became officers in the Bundeswehr?
Spidge very kindly e-mailed me a link about Bridgend POW Camp in Wales which held most of the Wehrmacht High command after the War. One of the pictures has Field Marshal Von Manstein standing in 1971 with Walther Wenck who appears to have a Bundeswehr uniform on. I know Rommel's Deputy Hans Speidel became a Bundeswehr Commander and it seems that Walther Wenck also became one. any others???? |
The list is rather long: A host of former Wehrmacht officers found new posts in Adenauer’s government and the emerging military. In May 1950, General Gerhard von Schwerin had already started planning for the creation of a federal police force -- a force to be equipped with heavy mortars and other weapons not normally associated with such organizations. Three other retired generals, later joined by a long list of others, closed ranks in a small organization in the “Zentrale für Heimatdienst”. These men -- Johann Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg, Axel von dem Bussche and Achim Oster -- had already worked on defence concepts for several years.